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Accounts (root PATH): 1 control for Linux hardening

Pavois audits 1 control in the Accounts (root PATH) hardening domain, across 9 systems and 1 standard (CIS). Every control declares the evidence it gathers, its severity, its remediation and its standard references.

The domain in figures

Controls1
Severities
medium 1
Evidence gathered
persistent config 1
Standards
CIS
Systems
Debian 12Debian 13FedoraRHEL 10 / Rocky 10 / AlmaLinux 10RHEL 8 / Rocky 8 / AlmaLinux 8RHEL 9 / Rocky 9 / AlmaLinux 9Ubuntu 22.04Ubuntu 24.04Ubuntu 26.04
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What does Pavois check in this domain?

persistent config 1
Checked against the content of a persistent configuration file, the source of truth that survives reboots.

Which standards does this domain cover?

One effective-configuration check serves as evidence for several standards at once. The references below are the ones the corpus actually carries, never a claimed equivalence. how to read a standard mapping.

CIS
5.4.2.5

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